Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/stremę

This Proto-Slavic entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

Proto-Slavic

Alternative reconstructions

• *strьmę
• *strьmenь
• *strъmenь

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Indo-European *strebʰ-men, from *strebʰ- (“to twist”). Ancient Greek στρέφω (stréphō).

Noun

*stremę n

1. stirrup

Declension

Declension of *stremę (n-stem)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*stremę	*stremeni	*stremena
genitive	*stremene	*stremenu	*stremenъ
dative	*stremeni	*stremenьma	*stremenьmъ
accusative	*stremę	*stremeni	*stremena
instrumental	*stremenьmь	*stremenьma	*stremeny
locative	*stremene	*stremenu	*stremenьxъ
vocative	*stremę	*stremeni	*stremena

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: стремень (stremenĭ), стръмень (strŭmenĭ)
    • Belarusian: стрэ́мя (strémja)
    • Russian: стре́мя (strémja)
    • Ukrainian: стреме́но (streméno), стремено́ (stremenó) (with paradigm leveling)
• South Slavic:
  • Bulgarian: стре́ме (stréme)
  • Macedonian: стремен (stremen) (with gender change)
  • Serbo-Croatian: (with gender change)

    Cyrillic: стре̏ме̄н, стр̏ме̑н

    Latin: strȅmēn, stȑmēn

  • Slovene: stréme
• West Slavic:
  • Old Czech: střmen, třmen, střemen, třemen (with gender change)
  • Czech: třmen, třemen
  • Polish: strzemię
  • Slovak: strmeň (with gender change)
  • Sorbian:
    • Lower Sorbian: tśmjeń (with gender change)
    • Upper Sorbian: třmjeń (with gender change)

References

• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “стре́мя”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress